Large-scale checkups are being carried out at the republic’s industrial and social facilities and on individual households aiming to find possible destructions caused by the earthquake

ABAKAN, December 22, 17:08 /ITAR-TASS/. During Sunday’s inspections, experts identified some insignificant damage to time-worn buildings dating back to 1930s-1950s after an overnight earthquake that hit Khakassia, a constituent republic of the Russian Federation located in South Siberia.

Large-scale checkups are being carried out at the republic’s industrial and social facilities and on individual households aiming to find possible destructions caused by the earthquake.

Khakassia will get all the documentation, acts and photo materials in the nearest days that prove the seismic event's impact on the facilities.

“The data is to be thoroughly analysed,” Sergei Novikov, Khakassia’s minister for regional development, said. “The possibility of conducting additional inspections is not excluded as the republican authorities should take all the precautionary measures.”

“Checkups measuring possible gas leaks with the aid of gas detectors are under way. The engineers are inspecting gas facilities but no gas leaks or other gas-related threats have been exposed,” he said. “The work will be carried on until every facility is checked.”